“I don’t wanna grow up, I am a Toys R Us kid…” If you were an 80’s child like me, you know the jingle. You remember the excitement and wonder of walking into a Toys R Us. A store...
If you haven't heard by now, YouTube Kids has been hacked. Inappropriate videos using beloved children's characters slitting their wrists and doing other disturbing things are uploaded under the guise of children's programming. As parents, we see the friendly...
Both my husband and I have Irish ancestry so when my husband traveled to Dublin, Ireland for work, we decided it was a great time to take a family vacation.
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Ireland is a great place to take a...
Would you charge your five-year-old rent? Supposedly-savvy mama Essense Evans does, and her post explaining why has gone viral. Evans assures us that her plan of giving a set allowance but then subtracting arbitrary amounts for rent, bills, and...
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Living in San Francisco, we are fortunate that winters are mild compared to the rest of the country. We don’t have snow, and we get some sunshine. What we do get a lot is...
One of my guilty pleasures is watching “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.” I grew up in Jersey and even though my childhood in the Garden State looked nothing like the lives portrayed on the show, the casts' accents,...
We want our kids to develop independence, but how do you deal with throwing food at the dinner table? Your child’s age and the individual situation will dictate the best decision, but you can definitely deal with this behavior...
Pregnancy mood swings get all the attention, but few things are as hormonally fraught for a new mom as breastfeeding. The highs are exhilaratingly high—the incredible closeness, that sleepy, snuffling sound—and the lows are crushingly low—the screaming newborn who...
I am not a movie buff, and I can't recall the last film I saw in a movie theater (or even at home, for that matter), but I still make it a point to watch the Academy Awards every...
Sometimes my children's whining is so impressive that I wish I could hand out awards for it. Think of the commitment it takes for them to completely change their tones of voice, switch up their posture into a pathetic...
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Winter is here and there’s no better to explore the fascinating world at Ripleys’s Believe It or Not! San...
